I briefly heard the tail end of a conversation from senator Doug Cameron,On ABC radio today, who said, labor should increase taxes, so that the dole can be increased, so recipients of the new start allowance COULD LIVE A DECENT EXISTANCE.

Please, correct me if I heard wrong.

I know just what you mean, rehctub,

Surely anyone on the dole should be cosy in the gutter. After all that's where they belong. Fancy them wanting a decent existence.

Societal cohesion - who needs it!

I reckon some of our taxes should be put into AA in order to wean the country's magistrates of gin.

I see no problem with that. those in favour of paying more inform the ATO & those who are not in favour just keep paying your present rate. Is there anything less complicated ?
I suppose there is, we could tax any public servant over $100,000/year a little more. That'll more than adequately provide for those who think they're too good to have to pull their own weight.
The genuine innocently out of work must be given a decent existence. I think it would be far better if the Lotteries instead of paying out 50 or 70 million dollars reduced the first price & increased 2nd, third, fourth & fifth. that would alleviate a lot of unnecessary hardship.
Perhaps when we get the smarter Government something like this could be implemented. A Government Lottery perhaps ?

Why on earth would they want to buy the yobbo's vote, they already own that. In fact have put a few of them in to parliment as senators.

Hell no Poirot, they shouldn't be bludging in the gutter. They should be in work camps, building roads, clearing noxious weeds, or the highly flammable litter in national parks. Nothing wrong with making 40hour a week jobs of these tasks either, on minimum wage, rather than dole.

Anyone who wants to eat should have to give something back when given a hand out. Anyone who did not feel better actually earning their keep is not worth keeping.

Socialist Left Doug Cameron has previously taken Julia Gillard and her Greens cohorts to task for the big spending promises being made in the electioneering that is supposed to be governing. He was unsuccessful in his bid to have some of that money directed into Newstart, so the old favourite, just demand more mosey from taxpayers has come to the fore.

Higher tax would hardly be welcome where the electorate is already complaining about cost of living increases. The increase would be followed by an immediate jump in wages and prices, and cost of living increases. It is the dog chasing its tail, which those on pensions and fixed incomes would be aware of.

There are mega millions being wasted frivolously in the victim industries and multiculturalism that were spawned in the Whitlam years and have grown like topsy since. The total amount spent in these areas defies reckoning there are so many snouts in the trough. But wait a minute, that is where the educated middle class elite who drive Labor policy make their daily bread and pay for their Beamers.